Police Culture, Outsourcing and Austerity

The Rise and Fall of the Lincolnshire Police-G4S Strategic Partnership

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8400935
AutoresAdam White (0000-0002-1063-5486, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Fecha de publicación2025-12-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azaf108
OpenAlexW4416933189
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas22

This article explores the rise and fall of the largest police outsourcing deal in UK history: the £229 million Lincolnshire Police-G4S Strategic Partnership, which ran from 2012 to 2022. Interpreting longitudinal interview data through a police culture lens, it illustrates how police leaders narrate the trajectory of the Strategic Partnership using three scripts: a ‘managerialism’ script, which promotes new public management solutions in the face of austerity measures; a ‘market scepticism’ script, which voices the dangers of applying commercial logic to the policing sphere; and a ‘rank hierarchy’ script, which articulates the importance of authority, control and professional experience. It advances our understanding of not only police outsourcing and backsourcing but also the market for policing under conditions of austerity

Austerity · Control (management) · Face (sociological concept) · General partnership · Managerialism · Outsourcing · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Policy and Administration Research